Background
BROADBENT, Donald was born on May 6, 1926 in Birmingham. Son of Herbert Arthur Broadbent and Hannah Elizabeth Broadbent (nee Williams).
BROADBENT, Donald was born on May 6, 1926 in Birmingham. Son of Herbert Arthur Broadbent and Hannah Elizabeth Broadbent (nee Williams).
Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Director 1958-1974, External Staff since 1974. President British Psychological Society 1965, Psychological Section, British Association for the Advancement of Science 1967, Experimental Psychology Society 1973. Fellow, British Psychological Society, Acoustical Society of America, Human Factors Society, Wolfson College, Oxford, Royal College, of Psychiatry, Faculty of Occupational Medicine.
Foreign Association North.A.S. Her Majesty Vernon.
Lecturer, British Association for the Advancement of Science. Gregynog Lecturer (Aberystwyth), Pillsbury Lecturer (Cornell), Fitts Lecturer (Michigan), William James Lecturer (Harvard).
Fletcher-Stevens Lecturer (Utah), Bartlett Lecturer (Experimental Psychological Society). Honorary Doctor of Science (Southampton.
Loughborough, City, Brussels), Honorary degree (York).
Applied Psychology Unit, Medical Research Council 1949-1958. Advisory committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations since 1987.
Married 1st Margaret Elizabeth Wright in 1949, two daughter. Married 2nd Margaret Hope Pattison Gregory in 1972.